skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is the central question. If someone isn't asking, "What would a malicious user do with this system?" and inserting their favorite internet bogeymen as a thought experiment, they haven't finished their design.

This is doubly true for safety systems. I don't see much of the press release focused on how abuse of the safety system will be avoided beyond, "We'll eventually let it be reviewed by outside parties."
"A staggering number of votes required adjudication.This was a 2020 issue not seen in previous election cycles stillstored on the server.This is caused by intentional errors in the system. The intentional errors lead to bulk adjudication of ballots withno oversight, no transparency or audit trail. Our examination of the server logs indicates that this high error rate was incongruent with patterns from previous years. The statement attributing these issues to human error is not consistent with the forensic evaluation, which points more correctly to systemic machineand/or softwareerrors. The systemicerrors are intentionally designed to create errors in order to push a high volume of ballots to bulkadjudication"

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Antrim County failed to properly update its system. A purposeful lack ofproviding basic computer security updates in the system software and hardware demonstrates incompetence, gross negligence, bad faith, and/or willful non-compliance in providing the fundamental system securityrequired by federal and state law. There is no way this election management system could have passed tests or have been legally certified to conduct the 2020 elections in Michigan under the current laws. According to the National Conference of State Legislatures –Michigan requires full compliance with federal standards as determined by a federally accredited voting system laboratory
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Significantly, the computer system shows vote adjudication logs for prior years; but all adjudication log entries for the 2020 election cycle are missing. The adjudication process is the simplest way to manually manipulate votes. The lack of recordsprevents any form of audit accountability, and their conspicuous absence is extremely suspicious since the files exist for previous years using the same software. Removal of these files violates state law and prevents a meaningful audit, even if the Secretary wanted to conduct an audit. We must conclude that the 2020 election cycle records have been manually removed.
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so this is just made up?
I agree with you. At what point does it make sense to just use Google?
Woah. Didn't expect to see my local town appear on HN today. One thing they don't talk about is the customer service. I find Uber drivers are typically way more friendly and accommodating than the local firms. Not specifically Hart taxis, but one of their competitors in the area - Rushmoor Taxis - have been atrocious. Drivers making racist comments about brown people - their co-workers, drivers huffing and complaining bitterly if I dare use a debit card to pay, driver not even turning up and claiming it's my fault I "didn't see them" when I am standing out in the open. Our local cab firms need to up their game. It's not just about price.
I was born dual US/Brazil and left Brazil just after turning 18 about 36 years ago, wondering wondering whether I'm in the leak and whether anyone could use my info to open illicit bank accounts, etc. I don't want to be associated with money-laundering, and am too far in headspace from financial-institutions/credit-bureaus to check it out.
“Effectively become your main SSN” no but loaded question. less places would have your ssn or tin. the only difference it really makes is peace of mind and relying on the current reality that hackers aren't targeting you or anyone specifically and you will have an additional way to verify yourself if someone did try to do identity theft or whatever you’re worried about. Online People databases will still be reporting pieces of your older SSN while you have been primarily giving services a different number.

retirement time isnt a problem. if your business is getting paid and the person that pays needs your tin/ein then thats what they get instead of your ssn. You are still paying self employment taxes contributing to retirement.
I have a lot of questions, but I'd definitely pay if it worked. I've very slowly been getting more nearsighted, but I mainly avoid wearing glasses. My optometrist said that wearing glasses would speed the slide, although I'd eventually end up at the same level of myopia. I'd much rather wear glasses that fix the problem than make it worse.
Are bible apps banned?

https://www.sefaria.org/Genesis.22.3?ven=Tanakh:_The_Holy_Sc...

Some of the asses in the bible talk!

https://www.sefaria.org/Numbers.22.30?lang=bi&aliyot=0
The hedge funds shorting this like Melvin entered into a very crowded trade where the risk / reward towards the end, when GameStop was trading in the $3-$4 was very questionable. Over 100% of shares were sold short. This was at a time when GameStop had a book value of around $10. There's a reason why certain individuals / value funds have been buying heavily into this stock with 5% ownerships being disclosed at one time or another: Michael Burry, Donald Foss, Must Asset Management, Senvest Capital, Ryan Cohen.

Hedge funds like Melvin have billions of dollars under management and they need to allocate a certain percentage of that pool to each idea they have to make sense financially and they poured too much money into this one short idea than would be appropriate from a risk management perspective. They didn't do their research properly and probably thought the company would go bankrupt. That wasn't the case. GameStop doesn't have much debt and they survived the pandemic. The shorts should have realized their mistake and started covering. What was going on for months this summer and fall seemed like the posterchild of an inefficient market. Instead the shorts doubled down and they've tried to break the momentum of people buying into the stock ever since September when it started rallying by heavily naked shorting and buying large blocks of short term puts. You can observe this by reading level 2 and seeing the entire tape being red and bid prices being rapidly sold off. Numerous articles were written weekly on various financial sites saying the stock rise doesn't make sense and some were even irresponsibly telling retail investors they should short, often lying through omission on important details like Ryan Cohen becoming an activist investor and the extremely high short float and the new console cycle and the new microsoft deal and huge ecommerce growth. I question how many of these authors had connections to the short funds and wrote articles for them.
More to read about this on Bloomberg [0] and BusinessWire [1]

[0] https://www.bloomberg.com/press-releases/2020-12-17/kubota-v...
[1] https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20201217005811/en/
Also experiencing similar headaches with MacBookPro and 3.5mm headphone jack, HDMI, and using Bluetooth midi devices - sounds crazy to try reading all these other problems with vanilla setups. It did use to “just work”.
It sounds nice in principle. But often low quality services will lie about being high quality services, and there's not much recourse once you've paid.

Thus I have found myself participating in the race to the bottom, not because I'm per se unwilling to pay for quality, but because I am required to trust that the quality difference exists, while the money saved is certain.
Smaller players? I know a "small" biz that does $45,000 a day with Taboola. They do it because sadly their scammy ads work on vulnerable population.
The visual cortex does a lot more. It can predict future states, it does things like attention, it can classify states that are abnormal and direct attention to it, it can make analogies between different objects and use those to decide what is normal and what isn't. It's a lot more than just object recognition - it can also generate object classes on-the-fly and use them in the future.

We are very, very far from that. And having such a developed visual processing system is a prerequisite for feeding an executive processing system that can do counterfactual reasoning.
Context switching is a beast that demands respect for sure but sometimes you can't plan fewer switches.

>Taking on too many concurrent projects inevitably leads to burn out...

100%

Ps. It seems that the penalty increases as we grow older.
From personal experience, highly recommend this methodology. Note taking was always short-term helpful for me, but I found a step change in retention, etc.. by reliably reviewing new knowledge via spaced repetition. Another good article about notes as flashcards: https://andymatuschak.org/prompts/ (written by a collaborator of your linked article).

Also, agree re. Roam!
How does this actually help treat nearsightedness when not wearing it? Does it change the shape of the eye ball?
The annual number of age-related deaths seems to be around 10X the number of COVID deaths (so far), so the distinction likely doesn't have any bearing on the veracity of the statement.

Global deaths by age-related issues in 2017: >20 million[0]

Global deaths due to COVID: ~2.1 million.[1]

[0]https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/causes-of-death-in-70-yea...

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:COVID-19_pandemic_dat...
Sadly, sometimes this is the only way to get a human review on issues like this. Go public and be heard or face the ceaseless automated rejections.
Nice list. Are you upvoting them too? (One of them have only 1 point.)

[Small nitpick: You should add a space between the title of each post and the URL.]
It's not a great headline. My first reaction was "that's what glasses do".
Baidu Develops Multilingual Model Topping Google Benchmark
What are you and other people doing going to the laundromat, grocery and drink driving? That's nuts in the middle of a pandemic--how are those places even available for walk-in business? Since I don't commonly leave my house I had no idea people were out there "unavoidably" sharing physical space. No wonder the pandemic isn't contained, its full of people with unavoidabilities.
I recently moved my personal website (https://chrxr.com) to a static site in a rather complicated fashion.

I use Wagtail as my CMS, so I dockerized it and put it on an ECS cluster. I then use Wagtail Bakery to publish the pages to S3. I then change the task count on the ECS service to 0. For a DB I use sqlite in EFS, so it's persistent and backed up.

I was previously running on an EC2, and cut the cost from about $15 per month to ~$1-2 per month. All I'm paying for is <1mb S3 storage, a single route 53 hosted zone, and one image in an ECR repo.

If I want to add content, I spin up the ECS task again and work away. Note that part of the reason for such a low cost is my website get VERY little traffic :)

Apart from the cost, I also have the advantage that it's lightning quick most of the time, with caching provided by CloudFront.
The open source lesson of the Linksys WRT54G router
Wouldn’t there be a lot better examples to use, instead of one that is trivially disprovable? Or is that the point - how many critics of the FES have never done the experimentation themselves?

In a way, this feels like a DOS attack. We don’t have the time or ability to run our own experiments on things that matter.
They are as secure as they were before. But the lies are still lies.
What a fatuous remark. My dad was a business failure, but he had the audacity
to offer me advice, with confidence no less! I'll concede his advice, and
good advice generally, isn't nearly as long-winded nor rife with platitudes as
GP.
I'm intrigued, can you tell us more?
That's a tough nut to crack as everyones axis to the astigmatism is custom, nevermind the combination of powers to compensate for the actual focal issues.

And all of those details shift over time, too.
Hart Taxis boasts higher driving safety, but what are the statistics for being involved in a road accident with a taxi really like? If the odds of an accident are already minuscule with the cheap taxi services, and only marginally more minuscule with Hart Taxis, then I imagine many passengers would go with the £15 cheaper option.

With regard to their drivers earning a "living wage", I would rather let the workers themselves speak about that – you can’t really trust anything an employer says here unless it has been vetted through collective bargaining.
I take the same position that it's a fundamental biological modus operandi of human beings to be that way. No need to convince me of that.

What I don't accept it the double standard. I don't live in the US, but elsewhere in the West and I see sometimes on the news "this country is racist because X happened blah blah blah" and when you zoom out and actually look at it we have some of the most diverse populations living side by side in harmony with relatively little tension and an extremely welcoming attitude in general. You go elsewhere in the world and it's not even close to the level we're on as it's a lot of monoculture and not much immigration, mostly people emigrating towards places like where we're from. So there is no or very little culture of accepting that other types of people live where you live and that's ok. If you hold both places to the same standard the non-Western countries are racist AF in comparison.

If it's all just biology and that's the norm, I'm just going to go back to that norm right here in the West. Oh wait... I can't because that would be racist.

I know 1000x over that it's absolutely the case that biologically speaking this is the natural state of things and you can never hope to override it at the deepest levels. But I bet my bottom dollar if immigration/emigration we're to reverse the places that became the new melting pots would be forced to lose those defaults as the West has. The only difference between us is they've never had large enough groups of people jumping up and down and getting in their face about it enough for it to change the cultural norms. We have.

I'm pretty tired of the End Racism narrative in the West because of this double standard. It's like wait... If I were to go to your country and try to live the life you live here I'd get nowhere close to the acceptance and treatment you get here yet WE'RE the bad guys? Like fuck off. If people want to end racism there's lower hanging fruit than the West which is comparatively doing amazing.
It's been 24 years yet I remember my ICQ number. It's so weird as the number isn't easy either neither I was an addict icq user.
I don't see the point of a voting machine with a paper trail. You get preliminary statistics a bit faster and you get people used to the idea of voting machines.
Reddit stock traders send GameStop, Blackberry on rocket ship ride
I feel for this guy, but as someone who takes climate change seriously — and has read plenty a paper that has kept me up at night - I believe we live in the here and now. It’s so important to live compassionately today, in our own circles.
One day at a time. We get one life. We get one round with those we love the most.

It’s important not to lose sight of that.
The 'coronasomnia' phenomenon keeping you from getting sleep
It should have been flagged for human review. People are taking issue with the automated takedown, not that automated detection can produce false positives.
Private mode circumvents the paywall.
Maybe I should have said 'via' Google.
>With Hart Taxis you get:

- Smart drivers who have been working a maximum of 12 hours in a single shift and a maximum of 6 shifts per week.

- Smart, washed and valeted cars

- Road legal vehicles with full service history.

- Vehicle tracking services so you can see where your driver is from when they accept your job to when they arrive.

- Text information detailing the make, colour and registration of the vehicle that will be picking you up.

- Meet and greet service at the airport where we monitor your incoming flight and only send the driver at the appropriate time.

- Bottled water on arrival at our airport jobs.

- Automated booking via our Oliviar booking system with the industry’s leading booking and despatch software

- Full E-receipt provided on completion of job, if required.

If I understand things correctly, then the only difference between this and Uber/Lyft is primarily item 1 (although I'm not sure why it matters that the driver is "smart"). Items 2 and the bottled water could probably be gotten through Uber Black which also costs more.

So it seems one pays a premium to help certain drivers earn a living wage, and support an ethical company; more cynically, to not feel like one is participating in Uber-style exploitation. I imagine that some in the effective altruism community[1] would consider this and other sorts of ethical consumption to be "ineffective", and would recommend people just donate the price difference to needier people, or to an organization better equipped to create structural change. But I'm not an effective altruist so I may be misrepresenting that perspective.

[1] https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Making-a-difference/Change-A...
"Likewise, all server security logs prior to 11:03 pm on November 4, 2020 are missing. This means that all security logs for the day after the election, on election day, and prior to election day are gone. Security logs are very important to an audit trail, forensics, and for detecting advanced persistent threats and outside attacks, especially on systems with outdated system files. These logs would contain domain controls, authentication failures, error codes, times users logged on and off, network connections to file servers between file accesses, internet connections, times, and data transfers. Other server logs before November 4, 2020 are present; therefore, there is no reasonable explanation for the security logs to be missing. "
Excellent engineering but I wish they also worked on AI
To be clear, that refers to a demo system unrelated to Starlink. I don't think it is known where the Starlink lasers come from or what their capabilities are.

All I know about them is that a reason they weren't deployed in the first batches of satellites is their original design included parts that did not burn up completely on reentry, and SpaceX wants Starlink satellites to always burn up completely, since there are thousands of them.
That's probably part of it and Godzilla is a direct response to it, but Japanese horror goes back further than that. If you're interested, it's worth exploring Japanese folklore. Something Wicked from Japan is an interesting collection of ukiyo prints about this: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/something-wicked-from-japan...
oooh, thank you for shouting out my Favorite Podcasts list! :)

this thing is super impressive, congrats on curating your brain and inspiring impostor syndrome on all your fellow gardeners haha
I'm near Cambridge(UK) and the number of days where it makes a difference is low here too. The bike lane experience largely sounds similar too :/

However, in the Before Times I'd keep a spare front wheel with a winter Schwalbe for slimy or light snow days. Swapping it out took literal seconds, and it made a huge difference. Variable traction on the back wheel is far more forgiving.
DoH can be enforced by user-hostile devices and applications.

Including Internet-of-shit infested appliances and devices.

With 5G SIMS embedded and financed at rock-bottom mass-contract data-dribble rates via advertising, other revenue flow, or up-front / ongoing purchase revenue streams, WiFi LAN egress controls --- PiHole or other DNS blocklists, or IP and protocol firewalls --- simply won't be effective.
> all the other things that Hart mentions, while important, are not easy to measure

Some can be easily measured but would require significantly more regulation/data gathering; for example, calculating on time arrival and how optimal the route chosen was. Others would require publicizing data that some stakeholders might be resistant to reveal, such as the number of vehicle safety infractions they've accumulated in the past 90 days.
> 75% of Republicans do not trust the election results and

If their mistrust is based on crazy, there's nothing that can be done to fix it except to cure that crazy.

And I think it's based on crazy: the reasoning seems to break down to: (A) belief that Donald Trump won implying (B) the election must be fraudulent (since it didn't confirm A).
My fridge uses DRM to check the filter. I’m sure they won’t forget the doors. And I bet they’ll be attached via some obscure proprietary screwdriver head that’s unavailable to the public.
Even if you say the ouster of Dilma was illegitimate, there's the fact that her VP served out the rest of her term, then the party lost the next election. There's no "coup" because there was no loss of power by anything other than the democratic process.

Now of course there have been all sorts of dirty political dealings, those just aren't described by the word "coup." That said, if some day Bolsonaro or others forms a new junta, then I will agree with you at that later time. But that day is not today, unless I am slow in receiving news of a newly formed junta.
How long before we get space-70-1 cloud region with Cloudflare/Cloudfront serving cached data from orbit?
Is that so? I find that U.S.A. media tends to avoid rape but features all other kinds of violence.

Anything related to sex, nudity and swearwords is held to the utmost standards of censorship.
Not buying a house now to keep looking is way less risky than buying one and maybe making the wrong decision. From my experience it's not always possible to fully rationally explain how I feel about a decision, but for most decisions where I said yes despite having a bad feeling my subconcious was right in retrospect. So maybe you also made the right call.
> I'm not sure if you can really even call this a "classification."

Probably not, I'm mostly responding snarkily to how deeply conspiracy theories have embedded themselves into the body politic.

More important is the idea that a well formed[0] defamation lawsuit is something that requires public attention and redress. Attempting to call this defamation lawsuit something that is suppressing dissent smacks of a hamfisted attempt to make this lawsuit into something bigger than it actually is. Giuliani and his ideological cohort made a bunch of defamatory statements about a company, and predictably that company is suing for defamation. There's nothing terribly surprising or concerning about that.

0 - Defamation lawsuits can be used to suppress speech, of course. This is exactly why many states now have anti-SLAPP laws on the books. That however does not seem to be an issue in this case, as this lawsuit is at least well formed.
Nope, that's an unenforceable rule, too. Here's a great article explaining the evolution of FB's nipple policy:

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20190503/17322942136/conte...
The problem with this statement is that it assumes that "fact-checkers" are a single entity when that is not the case.

The answer to "who fact-checks the fact-checkers" is "the fact checkers".

And we can use consensus, reputation, and checks against known facts to validate the checks themselves. If group A, group B, and group C all agree and group D disagrees, then we can say with relative confidence that D is probably wrong in this case. It is safe to go with the consensus.

However, if A, B, C are notoriously unreliable and have a history of distorting claims, then it is beneficial to see why D disagrees with all three. Or even not use A, B, and C as sources.

We can also judge a fact-checker's veracity by how they evaluate a claim. Do they provide sources for their claim. It's one thing to say "This will murder 40 people a minute" and quite another to say "This claim disagrees with a recent study by the CDC [link to study] that says it will only murder 39 people a minute".

The only reason to cast doubt on the process or activity of fact-checking is if you don't want people checking your facts.